Forward Deployed Engineer

 

Casca

Forward Deployed Engineer

Full-time On-site Market and Montgomery, San Francisco, CA $160K - $265K

Based on experience and qualifications. $160K-$190K for FDE (0-3 yrs), up to $265K for senior (3-5+ yrs)

About this role

The Role

This is a role for a builder who gets obsessed with solving real customer problems and wants to apply that energy to one of the least automated industries in the economy. Many engineers never get access to a meaningful problem space or real users. This role gives you both.

You will work directly with customers, sitting alongside operators and understanding how they actually do their jobs. You will learn their workflows deeply, including what is broken, what is tedious, and what matters most to them. From that understanding, you will build software that changes how they work.

This is the core of the forward deployed model, deep empathy for the user combined with the ability to build.

You are not a consultant delivering last-mile work. What you learn in the field becomes part of the Casca platform. You help decide what is worth building, working across customer, product, and engineering. You do not just collect requirements. You help shape the product itself.

We're Hiring Across Levels

We are growing the forward deployed team and hiring across levels. The responsibilities are consistent, but scope and autonomy differ.

Forward Deployed Engineer: roughly 0–3 years of experience, or strong early- career builders who have demonstrated the ability to ship real software and want to learn quickly in a customer-facing environment.

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer / Tech Lead: roughly 3–5+ years of experience, with ownership of architecture, ability to handle ambiguity, and

 

 

responsibility for the most complex parts of a deployment while raising the bar for others.

What You'll Do

Projected division of responsibilities: roughly 70% building and shipping, 30% embedded with customers and collaborating with your team.

Live in the Customer’s World

Embed directly with bank teams on-site, working alongside underwriters, lenders, and operators

Develop a deep understanding of their day-to-day workflows, bottlenecks, and pain points

Become the person who understands these processes better than anyone because you have seen them firsthand

Build Something Magical

Turn your understanding into working software that automates and improves workflows

Build on top of Casca’s platform to extend it into new use cases

Deploy AI-powered systems that replace manual processes

Iterate quickly based on real user feedback in production

Help migrate customers from legacy systems to modern, scalable solutions

Own the Lifecycle, and Shape the Platform

Take ownership end-to-end, from problem definition to deployment and iteration

Scope problems effectively and focus on delivering real value quickly

Feed what you learn in the field back into the platform, improving future deployments

Contribute to product direction based on real-world experience

Our tech stack: TypeScript, React, Next.js are must-haves. Postgres with Prisma, Python, and AWS are part of our stack and expected to be learned or picked up quickly.

0 - 5 years of experience

in full-stack / product / forward deployed engineering building 0 to 1 products

Salary

 

 

$160K - $265K (Based on experience and qualifications. $160K-$190K for FDE (0- 3 yrs), up to $265K for senior (3-5+ yrs))

Equity

75th percentile equity

Visa sponsorship not available

On-site work policy

Onsite in Market and Montgomery, San Francisco, CA

Full-time position

Location

Market and Montgomery, San Francisco, CA

Report to

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcguan/

Tech stack

TypeScript, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, AI/LLMs, Azure

About Casca

Casca is building AGI for banking. We’re replacing decades-old legacy systems with AI-native technology that automates 90% of the manual work humans once had to do.

Casca is built upon responsible, compliant AI practices, including human-in-the-loop monitoring. Experience the future of lending for yourself!

Casca was founded by banking industry and machine learning experts from Stanford University and is backed by industry veterans & top-tier venture capital investors, including: Peterson Ventures, Y Combinator, The Sarah Smith Fund, and Clocktower Technology Ventures.

Team size

35 employees Founded

2023

Website

www.cascading.ai LinkedIn

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Total funding

$33M Company locations

SF

About the team

Lukas Haffer, CEO & Co-Founder

Lukas is the CEO & Co-founder of Casca AI. He previously served as Chief of Staff for the European Market at Avaloq (a globally leading provider of core banking software with $4 Trillion in Assets managed on the platform). Lukas holds an MBA from Stanford University, where he graduated as an Arjay-Miller Scholar (top 10%).

Tech stack

TypeScript, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, AI/LLMs, Azure

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